diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/wic.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/wic.py
index 791d265a5ee7..4e94f4d39abd 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/wic.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/wic.py
@@ -1894,34 +1894,6 @@ INITRAMFS_IMAGE = "core-image-initramfs-boot"
         self.remove_config(config)
         self.assertEqual(1, len(glob(os.path.join(self.resultdir, "sdimage-bootpart-*direct"))))
 
-    def test_sparse_copy(self):
-        """Test sparse_copy with FIEMAP and SEEK_HOLE filemap APIs"""
-        libpath = os.path.join(self.td['COREBASE'], 'scripts', 'lib', 'wic')
-        sys.path.insert(0, libpath)
-        from  filemap import FilemapFiemap, FilemapSeek, sparse_copy, ErrorNotSupp
-        with NamedTemporaryFile("w", suffix=".wic-sparse") as sparse:
-            src_name = sparse.name
-            src_size = 1024 * 10
-            sparse.truncate(src_size)
-            # write one byte to the file
-            with open(src_name, 'r+b') as sfile:
-                sfile.seek(1024 * 4)
-                sfile.write(b'\x00')
-            dest = sparse.name + '.out'
-            # copy src file to dest using different filemap APIs
-            for api in (FilemapFiemap, FilemapSeek, None):
-                if os.path.exists(dest):
-                    os.unlink(dest)
-                try:
-                    sparse_copy(sparse.name, dest, api=api)
-                except ErrorNotSupp:
-                    continue # skip unsupported API
-                dest_stat = os.stat(dest)
-                self.assertEqual(dest_stat.st_size, src_size)
-                # 8 blocks is 4K (physical sector size)
-                self.assertEqual(dest_stat.st_blocks, 8)
-            os.unlink(dest)
-
     def test_mkfs_extraopts(self):
         """Test wks option --mkfs-extraopts for empty and not empty partitions"""
         img = 'core-image-minimal'